A World Health Organisation taskforce has been sent to South Sudan to investigate an unidentified illness, which has killed 89 people, BBC reports.
The WHO sent a rapid response team of scientists to the area, which is one of the worst hit by recent severe flooding, to collect samples from sick people.“We decided to send a rapid response team to go and do risk assessment and investigation; that is when they will be able to collect samples from the sick people – but provisionally the figure that we got was that there were 89 deaths,” Sheila Baya, from the WHO, told the BBC.
In the bordering state of Unity, severe floods have increased the spread of diseases such as Malaria and caused malnutrition in children due to food shortages, Lam Tungwar Kueigwong, the state's Minister of Land, Housing and Public Utilities, said.
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